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In Jon Lender's column "Pension Payoff: Big Jump" [March 29], he describes a very generous pension system for state employees. This is the Tier I pension system, the eligibility for which ended decades ago and now covers few employees. Most have retired. The individual mentioned in the article was in Tier I, which only covers employees hired before July 1, 1984. Through collective bargaining over the years, increasingly less generous pension plans have been adopted for for new state employees, e.g., Tier II and Tier IIA. Few Tier I employees are still working. This benefit is not a way by which Gov. Dannel P. Malloy takes care of his people, but was adopted by...

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In Jon Lender's column "Pension Payoff: Big Jump" [March 29], he describes a very generous pension system for state employees. This is the Tier I pension system, the eligibility for which ended decades ago and now covers few employees. Most have...

It's a fine thing to be appointed by the governor as head of a state agency, because you can expect to serve four years or more at an annual salary typically from $130,000 to $180,000.
But it's finer still if, prior to being appointed, you've already put...

Out in the world where most taxpayers live, wages and family incomes have been stagnant or barely inching ahead for a decade, and pensions have disappeared.
But over at the Capitol, despite a budget gap that threatens dearly needed services, it's still...

The editorial regarding Peter Blum's resignation provided only a superficial analysis of the requirements to perform the work of chairman of the State Employees Retirement Commission [March 21, "Peter Blum's Resignation"].
The work of...

MIDDLETOWN — Former police Officer Francesca Quaranta has filed an appeal of the city pension board's decision to deny her application for a disability retirement.Quaranta is seeking a Superior Court ruling to overturn the Middletown Pension Review...

Jon Lender's Government Watch column Sunday turned the spotlight on a small, unfamiliar but impactful agency inhabiting the less-traveled corridors of state government, the Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission, and its once and perhaps...

The projected budget deficit facing the state's community colleges and regional Connecticut State Universities is growing.The $38 million shortfall projected two weeks ago has grown to $48 million – a 4 percent structural deficit from what is needed to...

It's become budgetary Groundhog Day. This is the fourth consecutive biennium in which the state has faced stagnant or shrinking revenues and had to fill a projected deficit with a tin cup and a meat cleaver. Needed programs and services are cut while...

Sometimes when you make a mess, it seems that each new attempt to clean it up makes it even messier.
Evidence of that is a 180-degree reversal on Feb. 19 by the Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission in its treatment of one of two government...

The Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission voted unanimously Thursday to deny former state Sen. Edith Prague's request to change her selection of a pension plan, which would have nearly doubled what she now receives: $670 a month, or about...

More than two dozen legislators in the 2015 General Assembly have introduced bills to provide tax relief for retirees. Twenty-five bills fully exempt Social Security income from Connecticut income tax and seven bills provide tax waivers for pension...

Standard & Poor's has agreed to pay $1.375 billion to the U.S. government and 19 states to settle charges it misled investors when it issued positive ratings on shaky mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the 2008 financial collapse — a case...

Edith Prague served in state government across several decades, yet she and her daughter claim [Jan. 15, Connecticut, "Prague States Case for Pension Plan Change"] that the complicated pension system was confusing when she chose her option....

Former state Sen. Edith Prague has spent much of her life helping others battle against the state bureaucracy, but she was fighting for herself Wednesday as she appealed her pension ruling.
Prague, 89, retired as the state's commissioner of aging last...

HARTFORD — Former state Sen. Edith Prague has spent much of her life helping others battle the state bureaucracy, but she was fighting on her own behalf Wednesday as she appealed her pension ruling.
Prague, 89, retired as the state's commissioner of...

Our governor and legislators took care of a lot of people in 2014. Raises were given to state workers, political appointees were given raises, tax breaks and grants were given to attract or keep businesses, a tax waiver for state teacher pensions was...

HARTFORD — An 89-year-old retired state employee has been fighting the state bureaucracy for more than six months in a pitched battle over her pension benefits.
The woman's daughter says it took 21 telephone calls on a single day to get answers about the...

Pensions are complicated, but state pension rules are confounding even to the former state commissioner on aging. If she can't understand them, how can anyone?
Edith Prague served 26 years as a (not highly paid) state lawmaker and nearly three years as...

MIDDLETOWN — The city's pension board has delayed action for a second time on a request from a fired former police officer to receive a disability retirement.Former Officer Christopher Lavoie worked for the department for 16 years before he was terminated...

Former Gov. John G. Rowland's former state police chauffeur, Vincent DeRosa, has won a $19,000-a-year increase in his lifetime pension, along with a 10-year, retroactive payment of more than $177,000 upfront.
As Rowland was being convicted this past...